Subject: PKF: Re: A Walk 
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 14:07:35 +0100


Feyerabend wakes up the next morning. He breakfasts on black
coffee and cold pork. During mastication he reflects on his encounter
of the previous evening, as anyone would. The sun shines a hard shean
on the wooden surface of his small cottage table. He moves over to the
only book shelf in the small cottage, which stands against a pine wall
that stands in shade. He picks two books out: L.Wittgensteins TLP and
a collection of Holderlin's poems. He fingers them, and is struck that
he holds two classics in his hand. He is the exemplar of sang froid because
he knows that there is nothing conventional about this fact.

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> Odes=EDlatel: Alexander Patterson <patters-AT-clnet.cz>
> Komu: feyerabend-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> P=F8edm=ECt: PKF: A Walk
> Datum: 16. =E8ervence 1998 9:34
>
> Feyerabend is returning from a walk in the woods back to his cottage. It is not yet dusk. He runs into a madman. The madman is the famous German poet, F. Holderlin. Holderlin waves his arms at Feyerabend and gestures for him to come over to a tree. Feyerabend is gracious, so he goes over to the tree where the German poet now waits. Holderlin points to the bark of tree, and says, "Look." Feyeraband looks and he sees carved into the bark of the tree B. Russell's definite description: ((Ex)Fx & ((Y)Gy iff x=y)). Holderlin, pointing at the carving in the tree, manages a sentence: "What a schizothemic thought!" he cries, although not outwardly distressed. Feyerabend is gracious and nods. Then he continues on his way home to his cottage, leaving the mad poet.
>
> What is Feyerabend thinking as he walks home? About the human species? Or what? Anyone care to speculate?
>
> Best wishes Alexander
>
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